Creating a website

Where to put the files

All the files and scripts for your site go in your ~/public_html directory.

For security, the webserver cannot access any files outside of this directory.

The default page should be named index.html (or index.php for PHP powered sites).

The URL of your site

You can access your website at one of two URLS:

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~username/

http://username.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/

File Permissions

The webserver runs as a user (w3serv, for the interested) and therefore is treated as just-another-user by the filesystem when it tries to access your public_html.
This means you have to set world file access permissions: